Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive by Geoff Dembicki

By Geoff Dembicki

A assertion of resistance, and a roadmap for radical switch, from the iteration that might be so much screwed through weather change.The Millennial new release will be first to event the doomsday affects of weather swap. it is also the final iteration in a position to cope with them. With time ticking down, 31-year-old journalist Geoff Dembicki journeyed to Silicon Valley, Canada's tar sands, Washington, DC, Wall road and the Paris weather talks to determine if he should still desire or melancholy. What he realized shocked him. thousands of individuals his age are looking to seriously change our global, and they're on the leading edge of resistance to the politicians and CEOs guidance our planet in the direction of disaster.

In Are We Screwed?, Dembicki offers a firsthand account of this circulation, and the shift in generational values at the back of it, in the course of the tales of kids battling for his or her survival. It starts with a pupil who abandons society to reside within the rainforest and ends with a Muslim feminist fomenting a political revolution. We meet a Brooklyn artist terrifying the oil undefined, a Norwegian scientist working around the melting Arctic and an indigenous filmmaker hard the worldview of Mark Zuckerberg.

Are We Screwed? makes a daring argument in those instances: A more secure and extra equitable destiny is extra achieveable than we now have been ended in think. This publication will endlessly swap the way you view the most important existential problem of our period and redefine the new release now fighting opposed to the percentages to resolve it.

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